46Synonyms found for recite

Word Origin & History

recite 1430, from L. recitare "read aloud, repeat from memory," from re- "back, again" + citare "to summon" (see cite). Recital is first attested 1512 as a legal term for "formal statement of relevant facts;" musical performance sense is from 1811. Recitation "act of rehearsing" is recorded from 1484; meaning "repetition of a prepared lesson" is first recorded 1770, Amer.Eng.

Example Sentences for recite

Merely having read the material and being able to recite it verbatim is neither education nor learning.

Students pick from a list of poems and recite them from memory.

Think critically and don't recite gibberish as though it is true.

Still, the light was enough to inspire me to recite poetry.

And it connects to a wireless computer server to recite information about cars.

It also demands a performer who can move and recite verse.

The researchers tested his accuracy by prompting him with two lines from the poem and asking him to recite the next ten.

He wants them to recite texts by heart-and many, but not all, of them eventually do so.

Have them point to places on the map as they recite their address.

Subjects were given a memory test known as the false fame paradigm, in which they were asked to recite a list of unfamiliar names.